Rural and Urban
The SAHGB Annual Symposium 2007, organised in conjunction with the European Architectural History Network (EAHN), has resulted in a volume edited by Andrew Ballantyne, entitled Rural and Urban: Architecture Between Two Cultures (Routledge, 2009).
Contents
1. Rural and Urban Milieux (Andrew Ballantyne and Gillian Ince)
2. Villeggiatura in the Urban Context of Renaissance Rome: Paul III Farnese’s Villa-Tower on the Campidoglio (Antonella De Michelis)
3. Rural Urbanism (Dana Arnold)
4. Anti-Urban Utopia in the German Aufklarung: the Ideology of Friedrich Wilhelm von Erdmannsdorff’s Architecture (Marc Brabant)
5. Urban Meets Rural: a Study of Three Eighteenth-Century Retreats on the Isle of Wight (Stewart Abbott)
6. The Picturesque Bourgeois House at the Edges of the Neo-Classical City (Philippe Gresset)
7. Rural Buildings and the Search of a ‘Regional’ Architecture in Belgium (Leen Meganck and Linda van Santvoort)
8. Nature and the City in 1920s America: Sunnyside Gardens, Queens, New York (Bruce Thomas)
9. Rurality as a Locus of Modernity: Romanian Interwar Architecture (Carmen Popescu)
10. Is the Kibbutz a ‘Radiant Village’?: Le Corbusier and the Zionist Movement (Marina Epstein-Pliouchtch and Tzafrir Fainholtz)
11. An Unlikely Influence: Le Corbusier and the Garden City Movement (Emma Dummett)
12. From the ‘Model Village’ to a Satellite town: Reading Change in Temelli through the Transformation of its Residential Landscape (Ali Cengizkan and Didem Kilickiran)
Purchase
This is available to order in paperback, hardback and e-book format via the Routledge website: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415552134/. It is also available for purchase via Amazon.
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